On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:48:56PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
>...
> * Source for generated files in the tarball: should be in both git and
> tarball, but sometimes mistakenly omitted from tarballs (e.g. configure.ac,
> m4/foo.m4, build-aux/git-version-gen). Leaving these out of the tarball is
> also an upstream bug, IMO, because it means the "source" tarball
> is not really its own source. I'd suggest sending patches upstream to
> add these to EXTRA_DIST.
>...
The ChangeLog file in the "source" tarball of the hello package is
generated from the git metadata.
You are saying it is a bug that .git is not shipped in the source
tarball of GNU hello?
> Regards,
cu
Adrian
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